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Definitions: Safety Net |
Safety NetNoun1. A guarantee of professional or financial security. 2. A large strong net to catch circus acrobats who fall or jump from a trapeze. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Safety Net |
| Specialty definitions using "safety net": ACROBATIC RIGGER. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A Safety Net (1987) Safety Net (1978) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Georgia | A number of informal survival mechanisms have emerged to supplement the formal social safety net. (references) |
Denmark | Danes are proud of their highly developed welfare safety net, which ensures that all Danes receive basic health care and need not fear real poverty. (references) | |
Australia | Australia's social welfare safety net has been reduced in recent years, however, in response to budgetary pressures and a changing political outlook. (references) | |
Political Economy | Poland | Union of Labor (UP): UP bills itself as an "ideologically pure" social-democratic party advocating a broad social safety net. (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | The high level of unemployment and lack of a social safety net create pressures on families to allow or encourage children to earn supplemental income. (references) | |
CHINA | The Chinese government recognizes, however, that major structural reform is needed in three related areas: the inefficient state-owned industrial sector, the financial system, and the social safety net. (references) | |
Trade | Indonesia | World Bank structural adjustment lending has included two policy reform support loans focusing on financial sector restructuring, corporate restructuring, and governance, a social safety net adjustment loan, and a water sector adjustment loan. (references) |
Travel | New Zealand | It is recommended that coverage for health problems and accidents be obtained before entering the country to ensure an adequate safety net. (references) |
Worker Rights | Azerbaijan | Many rely on the safety net of the extended family. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The entitlement programs that make up our safety net for the truly needy have worthy goals and many deserving recipients. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I am ready to work with lawmakers of both parties to create a farm safety net including crop insurance reform and farm income assistance. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
safety net | 59 |
pool safety net | 28 |
trampoline safety net | 26 |
social safety net | 7 |
food safety net | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "safety net"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | شبكة الأمان. (various references) | |
French | filet de sécurité. (various references) | |
German | sprungnetz (jumping net, life net), sicherheitsnetz (security blanket). (various references) | |
Italian | rete di protezione, ancora di salvezza. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 救助網 (cowcatcher), ズボン吊り (drag bunt, drawers, driving safely, jumper, safe, safeguard, safety bunt, sage, save, suspenders, sweater). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうじょあみ (cowcatcher), きゅうじょもう (cowcatcher), セーフティーネット . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afetysay etnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rede de segurança. (various references) | |
Spanish | red de seguridad. (various references) | |
Swedish | säkerhetsnät. (various references) | |
Turkish | emniyet ağı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-n-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fattens, featest, neatest, teentsy. | |
-3 letters: enates, estate, fasten, fatten, feyest, fyttes, safety, sateen, senate, teensy, tenets, testae, tetany, yentas, yentes. | |
-4 letters: antes, antsy, eaten, enate, etnas, fanes, fates, fatty, fease, feast, feats, fetas, fetes, fytte, nasty, nates, natty, neats, netts, netty, sente, setae, stane, state, tansy, taste, tasty, tates, tease, teats, teens, teeny, tenet, tense, tents, tenty, testa, testy, tyees, tynes, yeans, yeast, yenta, yente, yetts. | |
-5 letters: anes, ante, ants, ates, ayes, ease, east, easy, eats, efts, etas, etna, eyas, eyen, eyes, eyne, fane, fans, fast, fate, fats, fays, feat, fees, feet, fens, feta, fete, fets, nays, neat, nest, nets, nett, safe, sane, sate, seat, seen, sene, sent, seta, sett, snye, stat, stay, stet, stey, stye, syne, tans, tate, tats, teas, teat, teen, tees, tens, tent, test, tets, tyee, tyes, tyne, yean, yeas, yens, yett. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-n-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: festinately. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 66 65 74 79 4E 65 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01100110 01100101 01110100 01111001 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a f e t y   N e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0066 0065 0074 0079 004E 0065 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367727186912487186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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